Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Children's spelling primer with sepia illustrations by Kate Greenaway. The book is bound in pictorial paper-covered boards which are rubbed. There is minor professional conservation with some loss to spine. Inside, name on ffep. Some browning to end papers.
Seller: Begging Bowl Books, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 108 pages : frontispiece, illustrations. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards a little rubbed but quite good, gift inscription in pen at head of front board; contents age-toned but unmarked, binding tender in spots. 160 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
MAVOR, WILLIAM, LL.D. THE ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK. George Routledge & Sons, London, New York, 1885.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Covers and spine toned and lightly soiled. Small blue ink mark near bottom of front cover. "Accompanied by a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons". Illustrated by KATE GREENAWAY. Clean and fresh internally.108pp. Size: 7" x 4 1/2"
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Mavor, William. The English Spelling-Book. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1885.
Price: US$61.84 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small Octavo. 108pp. In the original decorative papered boards, edge and surface wear primarily to spine and extremities, including rubbing and slight fraying to head and tail of spine. Former owners signature to f.f.e.p. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Generally clean and bright internally. Inner hinges a little tender in places, otherwise a Good copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Mavor, William.. The English Spelling-Book.. George Routledge & Sons., London., 1885.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ' Accompanied by A Progressive Series of Easy and Familiar Lessons '. 108 pp, illustrated. Boards a trifle dust soiled and rubbed, eps browned. Text very clean. Very good hardback in publishers original beige card boards with black and red lettering and cold decoration.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$66.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First illustrated edition, first impression. Binding a bid darkened with spine ends frayed, and rubbing to corners. Later (1919) gift inscription on fep. The binding is sound ad the contents of the book clean and unmarked.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Mavor, William LL.D. The English Spelling Book. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1885.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In publisher's original grey boards. Title printed in black and orange, double-line border in black and orange with white endpapers and edges specked blue. See PRINTED KATE GREENAWAY A CATALOGUE RAISONNE. Schuster and Engen. p.54. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. Illustrations and frontispiece printed in brown, 41 drawings and 26 decorative initials, with images of children throughout the text. Spine is split, text is complete and tight, non-circulating library book plate, embossment and pocket on back endpaper, otherwise in good condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good plus first thus, wil lovely sepia illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Buff paper covered boards illustrated in red and black on upper and lower cover, lettered black and red, Spine peeled. Bumps and rubbing to lower corners.Top edge speckled red. Red endpapers. Peniclled initials on front pastedown. Text clean and bright. 108 pages, Frontispiece, 41 pp.26 decorative initials printed sepia, sepia drawings, text printed black. Some separation of binding at page 24. A very good copy. Schuster 71,1a. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans.
Seller: Uncommon Works, Gridley, CA, U.S.A.
Mavor, William. THE ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK. George Routledge & Sons, 1885.
Price: US$91.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1885. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Accompanied by a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons. Pictorial boards. B/w text illustrations. 108 pages. Covers are a little grubby and worn. Circular cup(?) mark to front cover. Endpapers are lightly browned. Contents are clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Mavor William. The English Spelling-Book. George Routledge, London, 1885.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First with the Greenaway illustrations. Wear and browning to covers, spine rubbed, front joint loose and book a little shaken. Still an attractive copy; scattered slight foxing. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Kate Greenaway. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Children. Inventory No: 045822.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$116.01 + shipping
Description: 108 Seiten, Frontispiz, illustriert von Kate Greenaway Einband angeschmutzt , leicht lichtrandig, Rücken am oberen Kapital leicht beschädigt, sonst gut erhalten Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 232
Seller: Antiquariat Gisa Hinrichsen, Freiburg Elbe, Germany
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 108 pp. Applied printed cover, frontispiece, illustrations throughout by Kate Greenaway. Lesson book for children with descriptions and lessons, illustrated. There are one through four syllable words, easy three letter words, and fables included. 7" x 4 1/2" spine split, some toning, pages intact.
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
Kate Greenaway/William Mavor. The English Spelling Book. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1885.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition.First Issue. 103 pp. 8vo. Near Fine. Rarely found in such good, almost unused condition. A lovely copy of this popular 1885 lesson and spelling book for young children, with charming line drawings in brown throughout by Kate Greenaway. (The second issue had coloured illustrations). Protected in clear removable acetate jacket. In publisher's original paper covered boards, printed in red and black, with speckled fore, top and bottom edges. Very minor foxing to front endpapers only. Age toning to boards and spine as is usual with this edition, but otherwise unmarked. Corners are nicely sharp although bottom two have tiny areas of paper loss at points. Again as is usual for this edition, the spine has a central longitudinal crease ( the paper is not split). All titles are clear and bright. Small area of creasing and shelf wear at top of spine that has resulted in very minor chip. Spine edge has 1cm paper slit. Internally and externally sound, with no damage or strain to hinges or guttering. The page block is particularly good,clean bright and tight, and looks hardly if ever opened. No inscriptions or previous owners' names.
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of this Kate Greenaway's illustrated book of English spelling. The first edition of this work. A charming pocket sized guide to English spelling for children, written by William Mavor and illustrated throughout by celebrated Victorian artist and writer, Kate Greenaway.With spelling of the alphabet as well as a series of lessons. In the original publisher's printed boards binding. Externally generally smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine, boards lightly marked with minor spotting. Internally, binding generally firm. Odd light minor spotting to odd leaf only, pages generally bright and clean otherwise. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$242.80 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 108 pp. Original pictorial boards, printed in red and black with 2 figures on upper covers browning slightly, the spine a little darkened and showing signs of wear, with the book plate of M. Greenhill. Profusely illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evance.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
William Mavor. The English Spelling-Book. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1885.
Price: US$302.74 + shipping
Description: A first edition of this spelling book by William Mavor. Illustrated throughout by Kate Greenaway, the work offers "a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons" for children, and is a charming example of Victorian educational and children's books. In paper-covered boards. Externally sound, there is markings and wear to the baords, as well as further wear to the joints and backstrip and strain to hinges. Internally, the pages are generally firmly bound, with some strain to certain areas, and are generally bright and clean throughout, with the odd handling mark and spot Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom